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North Dakota voters on Tuesday rejected Measure 3, a ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana in the state. North Dakota’s Measure 3 would have let people 21 and older possess, use, grow, buy, and sell marijuana for recreational purposes.…
The soda industry has a sly new strategy to head off taxes on its products — and it worked Tuesday in Washington state. Voters in the state passed Initiative 1634, a ballot measure that makes it impossible for cities and…
Democrat Antonio Delgado is the winner in New York’s 19th Congressional District, defeating one-term Republican Rep. John Faso. A Harvard Law grad and Rhodes scholar, Delgado campaigned heavily on expanding health care, noting that Faso voted to back the Republican…
Despite these recent wins, the number of women in US government is still well below proportional representation of women living in the US. And that underrepresentation has very real policy consequences. Having women better represented can actually change the conversations…
Twenty-two-year-old financial analyst Zainub Amir moved to New York City from Albany last June, around the time that her Taylor Swift news account @SimplySFans celebrated its seventh birthday on Twitter. The account has 124,000 followers as of this writing, but…
The Berlin-based cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s new book, “Parallel Lives,” which will be published in December, is a dazzling and disorienting collection of four short stories detailing the author’s interactions with the future. Schrauwen artfully weaves himself into and out of…
